Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

LifeDeepMy LifeBelongingDesire

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Jesse Ventura

GovernmentPeopleMadWantRunMore

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Melissa Bean

GivingGiving UpPrivacyTaxesUp

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

Rory MacLean

KindComfortableBecomeBricksSome

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Roisin Murphy

CreativityPeopleMeSayingThink

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

Micky Dolenz

DanceTelevisionWatchingShows

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

Michael Morpurgo

EyesBestSpecialWhyTouchOpen

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Miroslav Volf

WorkMarriageBusinessPeopleMoral

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

Debi Gliori

WritingYouSecretAfraidMagical

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

Connie Britton

BirthdayMusicGirlRainBlueMe

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Bob Feller

HeavenSometimesCleanBallUp

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Ariel Rechtshaid

BusinessMusicNameTryingFocused

If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.

Peyton Manning

LifeStepBelieveBetterBe True

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